FOOTNOTES:

[1]It may be doubted whether any compositions which have ever been produced in the world are equally perfect in their kind with the great Athenian orations.—Macaulay’s Essay, Athenian Orators

[2]The rest of the column is hopelessly mutilated.

[3]The rest of the column is mutilated.

[4]The remainder of this column and the whole of the next are either lost or so mutilated as to be unintelligible.

[5]When the next continuous passage is reached the speaker has quitted the direct issue and is attacking the political conduct of his adversary.

[6]Half a column is hopelessly mutilated here.

CHAPTER VIII

THE LATIN ORATORS

their style and means